Dangerousness Hearing Scheduled for Sex Offender Charged with Human Trafficking
BOSTON, May 3, 2022— A Level 2 sex offender is held without bail pending the outcome of a dangerousness hearing following his arraignment on human trafficking and other charges, District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.
On Friday, EL MAYS, 49, who lists addresses in Roxbury Crossing and that of a Boston homeless shelter, was arraigned in the Central Division of Boston Municipal Court on charges of trafficking a person for sexual servitude, deriving support from prostitution and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. At the request of Assistant District Attorney Nicole Poirier of Hayden’s Human Trafficking and Exploitation Unit, Judge Mark Hart Summerville ordered that the defendant be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. That hearing will take place tomorrow.
Evidence gathered during the course of an investigation indicates that the victim first encountered Mays in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street and shortly thereafter began trafficking her for sex. The victim was forced to go on "dates" during which she had sex with men in return for cash and drugs. Mays received all of the proceeds.
Mays and the men who paid for sex would sometimes force the victim to take crack cocaine. On one occasion, Mays allegedly stabbed the victim in the neck with a needle to force her to take drugs against her will.
At the time of his arrest, Mays had been recently released from a term of incarceration for violating the conditions of his probation on a prior Suffolk Superior Court conviction for rape of a child. Mays was charged in 2011 with picking up the then 15-year-old victim after she left a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and transporting her to a Dorchester hotel where the sexual assaults occurred. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to three counts of statutory rape of a child under 16 and was sentenced to six to eight years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation.
“This person is charged with violently exploiting a vulnerable victim. We will provide services and resources to help victims of trafficking rebuild their lives and begin to heal from their trauma, while those responsible for their exploitation will be prosecuted and held accountable,” Hayden said.
The defendant returns to court for a dangerousness hearing on May 4. He is represented by Tracy Dudevoir.
James Borghesani, Chief of Communications
All charged individuals are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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